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Teaching Chinese students Russian as a foreign language is caused, on the one hand, by improving their overall language proficiency, on the other hand, the mastery of professional language.
- Lu You
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Accessibility and Referential Choice: Personal Pronouns and D-pronouns in Written German
We present a corpus study and a production experiment that investigated the choice between two types of pronouns in written German – personal pronouns and so-called d-pronouns, which have properties of both personal and demonstrative pronouns.
Yvonne Portele, Markus Bader
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The pragmatic import of pronominal usage in chiShona discourse
This article discusses the pragmatic significance of chiShona pronouns by examining the use of different pronouns: personal, enumerative, and demonstrative, and by demonstrating their address and referential value and social meanings.
Makoni, Sinfree , Mashiri, Pedzisai
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Assertions are often accepted without being understood, a phenomenon I call stupefying. I argue that stupefying can be a means for conversational manipulation that works through at-issue content, in contrast with the not-at-issue and back-door speech act routes identified by others.
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Referensi Endofora Dalam Cerpen Harian Riau Pos [PDF]
This study titled is Endofora Reference in the Short Story of Riau Pos Daily. This study aimed to describe the reference endofora in Riau Pos daily short stories. The research is a qualitative research with descriptive methods.
Charlina, C. (Charlina) +2 more
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On the “Articlization” of the Propositional Argument in Bulgarian (in Comparison to Polish)
In the paper I discuss content explication processes in sentences expressing the causal relation in Bulgarian and Polish. The work implements the model of theoretical contrastive studies with a semantic interlanguage. I focus on condensation processes in
Jakub Banasiak
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The Influence of layout on the interpretation of referring expressions [PDF]
From the introduction: The division of text into visual segments such as sentences, paragraphs and sections achieves many functions, such as easing navigation, achieving pragmatic effect, improving readability and reflecting the organisation of ...
Bouayad-Agha, Nadjet +2 more
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Extraction in Dutch with Lexical Rules [PDF]
Unbounded dependencies are often modelled by ``traces'' (and ``gap threading'') in unification-based grammars. Pollard and Sag, however, suggest an analysis of extraction based on lexical rules, which excludes the notion of traces (P&S 1994, Chapter 9 ...
Rentier, Gerrit
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Kaplan's Sloppy Thinker and the Demonstrative Origine of Indeicals [PDF]
In this paper we give some suggestions from etymology on the contrast between Kaplan’s direct reference theory and a neo-Fregean view on indexicals.
Borghi, Guido, Penco, Carlo
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A FIRST LOOK AT CHEN (KONYAK) ARGUMENT AND CLAUSE STRUCTURES
Chen (Bodo-Konyak-Jingphaw, Tibeto-Burman) is an undocumented language of the Konyak ethnic group. It is spoken in northeast India and northwest Myanmar. This article provides a first description of the Chen simple argument and clause structures.
Hoipo Konyak
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